tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post6996320808584097637..comments2024-03-28T14:29:32.353-05:00Comments on The Devoted Classicist: Notable Homes: Bernard Boutet de Monvel at 11 passage de la VisitationJohn J. Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-12817839987843234742016-04-14T16:46:51.831-05:002016-04-14T16:46:51.831-05:00I am not seeing it, but I am satisfied, though, in...I am not seeing it, but I am satisfied, though, in knowing that it survives at least in part. Many thanks.John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-32863711776001232822016-04-14T09:52:48.009-05:002016-04-14T09:52:48.009-05:00HALF PUDDING HALF SAUCE or THE COUNTRY HOUSE blog ...HALF PUDDING HALF SAUCE or THE COUNTRY HOUSE blog has a link to Bing aerial view that shows what's left of the Folie Monvel in Palm Beach...look up Folie Monvel dated July 28, 2014...it's now octagonal as a pool pavilion, very much like The Belvedere at Petit Trianon. The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-10907244554555114072016-04-14T09:32:12.357-05:002016-04-14T09:32:12.357-05:00Joan Whitney Payson and Greentree...I understand h...Joan Whitney Payson and Greentree...I understand her home was built on the same grounds of the main house that she and Jock grew up in, with hers built when she married. A rather substantial stone veneered home in the Georgian style. I will let you know upon receipt from Paris of the lot if there are notations that will illuminate further. I did see the maquettes of the dining room and bedroom...as well as the ceiling panel for the latter, which I have to be honest would have loved...but I was out of town, sipping my morning coffee when it hit me that the auction was already in progress...being in California, and on the remote edge of Big Sur...I only hoped for wifi...online bidding is a blessing! I'm happy I even got a chance for wifi disappeared...meant to be. I do have a small Aaron Shikler study I got from Jean Howard's home on Coldwater Canyon, FUNERAL IN BROOKLYN, and got to speak with Shikler, who gave the backstory on the image as well as mentioning the large oil was lost in a fire at Jock Whitneys home. How odd to have studies for both homes. The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-34945179720879656122016-04-14T09:14:04.996-05:002016-04-14T09:14:04.996-05:00Thanks, PB. I know where Boutet de Monvel's h...Thanks, PB. I know where Boutet de Monvel's house in Palm Beach was located, but satellite views of that site do not reveal that was saved despite reports of plans to move and keep the main room. But it is a large property and might still be somewhat intact. If any Devoted Readers know, please comment.John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-30815623764079023822016-04-14T01:22:39.769-05:002016-04-14T01:22:39.769-05:00Oh! Swan and John J!
I know you both! I have be...Oh! Swan and John J!<br /><br />I know you both! I have been a fan of "pavilions" since I was 13! (when I first say the pavilion in Pasadena that I lived in for twelve years.....and, I believe "the Swan" bought!<br />I first saw the "folie de Monvel..." in my twenties visting Palm Beach. I snuck in the gate.....1966?? it was still there.......it took my breath away. Perfection! The others I adore are the pavilions that Jerome Zerbe built on the river in Connecticut....(a hexagon.....or octagon) I need to write a blog......I am a complete devotee of pavilions! I will!!!<br /><br />Jerome Zerbe and Cyrill Connolly wrote a whole book about them! They are heaven to live in! We lived in the Swan's former pavilion in Pasadena.....and then built our own house in Montecito...and copied much of the floor plan....Ihad first seen at 13!!!Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-27370745288757788962016-04-13T23:28:35.326-05:002016-04-13T23:28:35.326-05:00T.S., a glitch in the Subscribe By Mail feature pu...T.S., a glitch in the Subscribe By Mail feature published my unfinished draft of this essay prematurely along with republishing an older post. But I am glad that your comment was not effected by the 'official' publication. Your comments are always so deeply appreciated.<br /><br />If you have not already, you would be interested in seeing Lot 37 in this sale, a 1935 painting "Diane Et Acteon" which was based on a 1929 study for murals in the bathing pavilion of Mr & Mrs Harrison Williams. Oak Point was the name of the Bayville, Long Island estate by Wm A Delano. Although the mural project was not realized, Boutet de Monvel was later compelled to do this painting anyway.<br /><br />You would also be interested in Lot 40, a study model for murals in a dining room for Mrs Jacques Edeline, Ahetze near Biarritz. These are somewhat similar in nature to the Payson murals. He made replicas as painted panels, shown as Lot 41, "L'Abondance Et Apollon."<br /><br />Although I was never at the Payson house in Manhasset, I remember the Doyle auction of furnishings that was held on site in 1984 and a photo of the fantastic bathroom with murals by Boutet de Monvel in HOUSE & GARDEN in 1985. I was working at Parish-Hadley at the time, and we thought it was a mistake by the magazine that the caption identified the Payson house as Greentree. Although built on a large tract of land from the Whitney estate of the same name, the architectural drawings and landscape plans for the Payson house were all titled with the owners names and no mention of "Greentree." But any reference to that bathroom after 1985 inevitably states that it is in "Greentree" which people think of as the enormous Jock & Betsey Whitney house. I would love to know if your studies are labeled as "Greentree" by Boutet de Monvel. John J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4390485471778959088.post-47406058893191646852016-04-09T15:52:40.510-05:002016-04-09T15:52:40.510-05:00I've admired his artistic vision for years...g...I've admired his artistic vision for years...geometry, compass & ruler were his main tools aside from possessing a photorealistic painterly skill akin to Maxfield Parrish. His legendary handsomeness in all of Europe, fits the Maison's masterful interior/exterior evocative of past eras mixed with Art Deco of his time. He was one of the first to employ Art Deco in decorating through his association with many of the Masters of Art Deco. I finally have a piece of his story...the studies for Joan Payson Whitney's bathroom at Greentree...and now to find a place to hang them! Your stories and photo collages are such a joy, especially today with rain here...your Eye, and Vision are connected somewhere in time with Monsieur de Monvel. Oh, I understand he was a Master In the Art of Cocktails, something new to Europe then, bringing back a mixologist's knowledge from his time spent amongst American Blue Book Society.The Swanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159724663060240920noreply@blogger.com